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.. September 1968: Assigned to the Naval Reserve Force (NRF) as a unit of ResDesRon 27 at Seattle, Wash.

April 1971: Assignment changed to DesRon 37-NRF at Seattle, Wash.

03 December 1973: Decommissioned after 15 years and 6⅔ months of service

12 December 1973: Struck from the NVR

16 August 1974: Sold for scrapping

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Ernest Edwin Evans was born on 13 August 1908 at Pawnee, Oklahoma and graduated from Central HS in Muskogee before enlisting in the US Navy on 29 May 1926. He was appointed
to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1927, graduating with the class of 1931. He served in USS Colorado, USS Roper, USS Rathburne, USS Pensacola,
USS Chaumont, USS Cahokia, and USS Blackhawk. During World War II, he commanded USS Alden (DD 211) and USS Johnston (DD 557).

Johnston and her crew in an attack on a greatly superior Japanese battleship and cruiser force. In this action, which materially
contributed to the defeat of the Japanese counter-offensive against the Leyte invasion, Commander Evans and his ship were lost. Ernest E. Evans was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his
role in the Battle off Samar.

USS Evans (DE 1023) (1957-1973) was the first ship named in his honor.(U.S. Navy photo #NH 63499 from the Naval History and Heritage Command showing Lcdr. Evans at the commissioning ceremony for USS Johnston)

04 March 1961: San Diego, Cal. - "Enemy Sub Killers" Nestled alongside USS Kearsarge (CVS 33)
at San Diego, are three modern destroyer escorts and three destroyers of the ComCruDesPac force. The carrier and her group of 'greyhounds' make up a Navy Hunter-Killer Group now operating in the
Pacific. Included are (outboard in) USS Bridget (DE 1024), Evans, USS
Hooper (DE 1026) all of CortRon Three; USS Lofberg (DD 759), USS Taussig (DD 746) and USS John A. Bole (DD 755), all of DesDiv 72."

(Official U.S. Navy Photograph from the Hoyt "Bud" Colburn Collection)

1962: Ship portrait taken by a ComCruDesPac photographer off San Diego prior to the yard period mentioned in the photo below.

(Official U.S. Navy Photograph from the collection of Pearl Harbor Survivor, Hoyt "Bud" Colburn, who was a Chief Yeoman when he served in Evans.)

NOTE: Carol is the author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor & World War II in the Pacific (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martins Press, 2008); ISBN-10 031238694X
and ISBN-13 978-0312386948. Check on www.carolhipperson.com for availability.

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1962: Ship portrait taken off Point Loma, shortly after leaving the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. While in the shipyard the after 3" gun mount was removed and the DASH
helicopter deck was added without a DASH Hanger.

Dick AdamsDE 1023 (1962-1963)

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1962: San Diego - Evans returning to port. Sometime between now and the 1966 photos below, she'll have been back in the yards to have a DASH hangar constructed
aft of her stack.

1967: Western Pacific - Typhoon damage to forward gun tub aboard Evans. The ship was in Yokosuka when this photo was taken. The ship lost
this gun tub again off the coast of Oregon in 1968 on her way to Seattle.

1972: Seattle, Wash. - Attached is a scan of a picture that I took of USS Evans tied up in Seattle at Pier 90/91. I was alongside with
HMCS Port de la Reine at the time for a weekend port visit and thought that the Evans was a very pretty ship.

Michael HarveyLt.(N) RetiredCanadian Navy

Evans' Memorabilia

WardroomPaintingCourtesy ofDarryl L. Baker

Ship'sPlaqueCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Ship'sPlaqueCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Sailor of theMonth PatchCourtesy ofDarryl L. Baker

'50's Perma-PicShip's LighterCourtesy ofTommy Trampp

Ship'sLighterCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Ship'sAshtrayCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Ship'sLighterCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Viet Nam CruiseLighterCourtesy ofMike Smolinski

Evans History

View the USS Evans (DE 1023) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History
and Heritage Command web site.

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is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only a contact for the ship if one has been sent to us. We do NOT have crew lists, rosters, or deck logs
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